Bridget Phillipson

It’s time to stop the deflections and desperate excuses. Farage and Reform must co-operate with the authorities to establish the truth and prove just how deep this scandal goes.

Nigel Farage needs to urgently prove today that his top team haven’t broken the law and secretly plotted to undermine our democracy.

But the reality of what we are confronting is that, if allowed to go unchecked, we could end up in a position where someone who was arrested for very serious offences, for example, offences related to violence against a woman, and we…

We didn’t create enough prison capacity in the years that they were in government so that we don’t have to be even considering these kinds of options, which – in an ideal world – we would not be having to consider.

We have faced some really difficult and unpalatable choices because of the huge crisis that was left behind in the prisons estate.

Nigel Farage has spent the summer battling a bin in a desperate attempt to dodge scrutiny but people have a right to know what he’s hiding.

For some of them, I guess they think I should just get back in my box.

When she had her say, I just kind of said that people would find her out for who she really was.

And what unites them is a desire to take our country backwards.

Things that not very long ago felt totally unacceptable are becoming normal.

I worry about our daughters. I worry about the kind of world that they’re growing up into.

I’m profoundly worried about what we’re seeing in terms of misogyny across society.

I think it is fundamentally racist because I don’t think he would say that about any other group.

We’ve had pretty despicable things that the likes of Robert Jenrick have said in the past on his visit to Birmingham.

We were elected with a five-year mandate in 2024, and I see no reason that we would depart from that.

There is a real sense of energy and hope and purpose.

Having public consent for migration and having a system that is fair is absolutely essential.

We’ve seen some pretty shocking failings in terms of the police response over decades and sadly we’re not seeing the progress that we should in terms of how the police will often respond to this.

I worry that we are at kind of a ground zero in terms of attitudes around violence against women and girls.

He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.

These are the latest allegations in a mountain of unanswered questions concerning Reform’s donors and finances. Nigel Farage cannot dodge them forever. He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.

Nigel Farage cannot dodge them for ever. He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.

In light of these allegations, I would urge the commission to investigate:

Let’s be clear: this is no victory for Nigel Farage. The mountain of sleaze and scandal he and Reform are now engulfed in has grown and grown while he’s been trying to distract the public by fighting a by-election against a bin.

It’s time to stop the excuses and desperate distractions and finally come clean with the public. If Farage has nothing to hide, he surely would have done so by now.